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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale Including Property from the Collection of Herbert and Adele Klapper | 11A | $****** - ****** | Buste de femme (Dora Maar) | |||
May 6, 2014 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale Including Property from the Estate of Edgar M. Bronfman | 40 | $****** - ****** | Buste de femme (Dora Maar) | |||
Nov 16, 1998 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Part I | 69 | $****** - ****** | Buste de femme (Dora Maar) |
paintings
60 x 45.1 cm (23.63 x 17.75 in)
oil on panel
signed and dated 'Picasso 28.3.39.' (upper right), dated again '28.3.39.' (on the reverse)
Paul Rosenberg & Co., Paris and Bordeaux.
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg on 5 September 1941 (ERR inv. No. PR 5); Transferred to the Jeu de Paume, Paris, 6 September 1941; returned to the Möbel Aktion for sale and intended for transfer to Nikolsburg, Moravia, 1 August 1944; Recovered by Lt. Alexandre Rosenberg from train no. 40.044 at Aulnay-sur-Bois, August 1944 and restituted by the Commission de Récupération Artistique to Paul Rosenberg, 14 September 1945.
Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Weisman, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above, May 1962).
Mr. Richard Weisman, Los Angeles (by descent from the above, circa 1973).
Gagosian Gallery, New York (acquired from the above, 1990).
Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills.
Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zürich.
Private collection, Switzerland.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 16 November 1998, lot 69.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired at the above sale).
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above, 29 October 1999); sale, Christie's, New York, 6 May 2014, lot 40.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.
Zürich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Major Works from the Weisman Collection and Other Private Collections, June-September 1990, no. 22 (illustrated in color).
Zürich, Galerie Art Focus, Picasso, Retrospektive, April-September 2000, p. 78, no. 27 (illustrated in color, p. 79).
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Picasso et les femmes, October 2002-January 2003, pp. 218 and 390 (illustrated in color, p. 218).
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection, October 2015-April 2016, p. 31 (illustrated in color).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1958, vol. 9, no. 276 (illustrated, pl. 129; with incorrect support and dated 29 March 1939).
P. Shea, ed., Picasso to Pop: The Richard Weisman Collection, New York, 2003, pp. 46 and 124 (illustrated in color, pp. ii, 47 and 124; with incorrect support).
signed and dated 'Picasso 28.3.39.' (upper right); dated again '28.3.39.' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
23 5/8 x 17 ¾ in. (59.9 x 45.2 cm.)
Painted on 28 March 1939
